【Chapter 078】 Intoxicating wine

The next morning, the Liu family still woke up to the chirping of a group of magpies. A few baby magpies gradually grew up, and the magpie family grew a lot, but they did not move away from the Liu family's osmanthus tree like other magpies, but built their nests on other branches.

There is a saying: "The flower magpie has a long tail, and he forgets his mother when he marries his daughter-in-law." ”

However, those who live in the countryside know that this is not accurate. The magpie is one of the very few birds that can ruminate, and when the parent bird feeds the young, it spits out its own regurgitated food and feeds it to the young. When young birds begin to learn to hunt, they will also regurgitate their parent birds to repay them for their nurturing kindness. In the past few days, Liu Rui, who is idle, can see the parent birds in the nest or on the branches, waiting for the young birds to feed them.

Every time he sees such a scene, Liu Rui always feels very moved.

In addition to magpies, two orioles have recently moved in the woods near Liu's house, singing in the woods every day, and their crisp and high-pitched voices go straight to the sky. Most of the time, however, they only hear their voices and do not see them, and occasionally they can see bright yellow birds flashing through the trees, which is not really visible.

During the three-day National Day holiday, the two little ones naturally had to help the family work when they went home, and there was no ambiguity at all. After a series of changes at the beginning of the year, the two little ones have grown up a lot and are sensible. In the morning, without waiting for the adults to urge, they each carried bamboo baskets and went into the vegetable garden to collect vegetables.

As the weather gets colder, the variety of vegetables in the garden gradually changes, and summer vegetables such as water spinach and loofah begin to be replaced by autumn vegetables such as bok choy and lettuce. With the space spring water, the vegetables grow rapidly, but the weeds in the vegetable beds are also not too much, and they are the same every day.

Every day, Liu Rui and Zhang Guizhi have to spend a lot of time working in the vegetable garden, and they can't be separated. Also, the vegetable insects, grasshoppers and other insects in the vegetable garden are also moving in the direction of giantization, perhaps this is why those birds began to gather near the Liu family's yard to build nests.

These circumstances are also one of the reasons why Liu Rui has recently begun to be not optimistic about the prospects of growing vegetables, after all, with Shennong space, if you are a simple and hard-working vegetable farmer, you will be inferior. At the beginning, he was so poor that he had no choice, and he felt a little anxious to go to the doctor, but when he saw someone collecting vegetables, he hurriedly agreed.

Secretly guiding his aunt to grow vegetables, gradually replacing his own supply, and after the contract expires, he will no longer be a vegetable base, which is Liu Rui's idea. Although there are still many difficulties, Liu Rui still has to try to do it well.

These days, Liu Jiahong's body has recovered well, and he can stand and walk for a long time, and his recovery is much better than the doctor expected. Liu Rui knew that the space spring water had finally healed Liu Jiahong's old wounds slowly, and the worries in his heart disappeared.

Zhang Guizhi took the two little ones to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden, Liu Jiahong sorted out the vegetables they recovered in the yard, and Liu Rui entered the winery to make wine. After a while, in the curling smoke, the faint fragrance of rice spread, mixed with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers all over the yard, which makes people's brains vibrate.

This year, because of the space spring, the two osmanthus trees have not shown too much signs of withering in October, and they are still full of flowers. In addition, the aroma of osmanthus this year is much stronger than before, and you can smell the refreshing smell from afar. For such a change, in addition to Liu Rui knowing the reason, everyone is just amazed.

Sake brewing is a cumbersome process, and the rice that is steamed and pressed on the same day has to be fermented for more than half a month or more before it can be distilled to produce a mellow and sweet rice wine.

After steaming the rice, Liu Rui began to remove the lees fermented from the previous month from the warehouse where the fermentation vat was stored and prepared to add it to the retort.

However, he soon discovered that something was a little different.

In the past, when the sake lees were transferred to the distillation tank, although they also had a fragrance, they were only faint, and today's sake lees have a slightly stronger aroma than the rice wine brewed in the past. I stirred the sake lees in the fermentation vat with the gourd scoop in my hand, and in the clear wine, every grain of rice was clearly visible, and there was no such rotten and mushy feeling.

According to experience, Liu Rui knows that this is in the process of winemaking, and there is no mistake in every link, and the temperature, humidity and other environments are well adjusted to get such sake lees. When distilled, the best sake lees not only produce a lot of wine, but also have a mellow taste, which can be regarded as a good wine.

According to my father, he used to be able to make such good wine from time to time, but under the pressure of brewing costs in recent years, the quality of the wine used at home has declined. At least Liu Rui has never made such a quality of sake lees since he took over the winery for half a year.

"Dad, come and see!" In this case, Liu Rui was naturally called by his father to take a look and find out the reason.

If such a wine can be made in the future, not only can the yield go up, but the quality will be much better, which is very conducive to the signboard of Liujia Distillery shining again.

"Think about it, what was every detail like at that time?" After taking a closer look, and even licking the lees, Liu Jiahong couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

In previous years, Liu Jiahong could often make such good products when he made wine, but in recent years, with the gradual decline in the quality of wine-making raw materials, he has not done it for a long time.

"At the time?" Liu Rui fell into deep thought, trying to recall every detail of steaming rice, sprinkling wine koji, and pressing the altar.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Rui still didn't find that there was no difference between this jar of wine and the whole process when it was usually brewed. The degree of ripeness of the rice grains, the amount of koji, and the temperature of the pressure jar ,......, all have to change no big way, the only difference is that when the rice was steamed, it was a space spring water.

Liu Rui, who vaguely guessed the answer, entered the storage room again, moved out a fermentation vat, opened it, and found that the quality was the same as the vat just now, and it seemed that it should really be the spring water that played a role.

"It's been too long, I don't remember." There was no way for his father to know the secret of the spring water, so Liu Rui had no choice but to shake his head and say, "From today onwards, let's record it carefully and see if we can brew it again?" ”

Seeing his son brewing such a good wine, Liu Jiahong was naturally overjoyed and eager to try it. Seven months after being injured, I haven't entered the winery for a long time, so I might as well take this opportunity to regain popularity.

Immediately, Liu Jiahong couldn't take care of the vegetables in the yard anymore, and stayed in the winery to make wine. Of course, Liu Rui was reluctant to let Liu Jiahong do it himself, everything was his father's words, and he was responsible for the action.

Soon, the rich aroma of wine began to waft out of the winery, like a gentle little hand gently rubbing everyone's heart, straight into the depths of the heart. Liu Jiahong hasn't seen this kind of taste for more than ten years, so it looks very familiar and a little unfamiliar.

Liu Jiahong knows that if he can find out the reason and brew such a high-quality product every day, it will not only improve the output, but also promote sales.

"My brother's wine is getting more and more fragrant!" The little girl who was busy in the vegetable garden twitched Xiao Qiong's nose and said with some pride.

The little girl grew up smelling the fragrance of wine since she was a child, and she knew when the family could make good wine one day. The aroma of rice wine brewed in the winery today is really a bit strong, and the little girl can feel it from afar.

When Ma Changquan drove the miniature truck into the Liu family's compound, he could clearly smell the aroma in the air and was greatly surprised.

After dealing with the Liu family for so long, Ma Changquan naturally knew that the Liu family winery had existed for nearly a hundred years, and Ma Changquan had also drunk the rice wine of the Liu family, but to be honest, it could only be described by the words 'decent'. Perhaps it is the problem of raw materials, simple technology, or backward equipment, the Liu family's wine can at most gain a foothold in the countryside like Qingyun, and it will not be able to ascend to the elegant hall at all.

However, the aroma of wine in the courtyard today seems to have subverted Ma Changquan's senses, and he even has an illusion that although this taste is not as good as the top liquor, it is already on par with ordinary bottled wine.

After working for most of the day, Liu Rui finally distilled all the liquor, and after mixing it well, he couldn't wait to take a sip.

Mellow and fragrant, there is no strong stimulation for the taste buds, after swallowing, it is like a warm current through the esophagus and into the stomach, which is very comfortable. In the mouth and throat, there is a sweet taste that is constantly circulating, and it is endlessly memorable.

Although the doctor told him not to let Liu Jiahong drink, he still couldn't control it a little, took a small sip, and then decided to seal the wine and not sell it for the time being. This vat of wine can be regarded as a rare pinnacle of Liujia Distillery in recent years, and it can come in handy if you stay at home to make medicinal wine and usually entertain guests.

In the end, Ma Changquan, who was happy to hunt his heart, still took away ten catties, saying that he would take it back to honor his father-in-law.

After brewing good wine, a joyful mood permeated the Liu family.

The sale of longan and vegetables has obtained a large amount of money, which only makes the Liu family feel less stressed, but making good wine makes every Liu family member feel a comfortable feeling. Liu's winery has stood for decades and has become a spiritual symbol of the Liu family's survival.

Now that good wine has been brewed again, Liu Jiahong has seen the dawn of the re-emergence of the winery.

After being intoxicated for a while, Liu Rui began to clean up all the things in the wine shop, waited for the people from the power supply station to arrive in the courtyard, and had to cooperate with them to set up wires and pull the light into the Liu family compound.

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